martedì 17 giugno 2014

Italian Rainbow Revolution

After the
news released yesterday by L’Unità,according to one of the most read
Italian newspaper, la Repubblica, Italy
will gets its “Rainbow Revolution” when, in September, the Italian Parliament
will start the debate over the recognition of same-sex unions.

Monica Cirnnà

On Tuesday
17, the Italian newspaper la Repubblica
published that dealt with the issue of the recognition of same-sex unions. The
journalist, Maria Novella de Luca, interviewed Monica Cirinnà the supervisor of
two bills that will establish civil unions
for gay and lesbians couples and cohabitation
agreements for cohabitants couples either opposite or same-sex couples.

The Civil
Union bill will grant to same-sex couples the same rights and duties afforded
to married straight couples, indeed the Cohabitation agreement bill will grant
to cohabitants couples some of the rights and the duties of marriage, because “who
doesn’t got married, he or she doesn’t want to have all rights and duties”,
Cirinnà says.

The paper
version of the Tuesday article also reports two interviews, one to Giuseppina
la Delfa, President of Rainbow Families, an association of gay parents and the
other to the Catholic MP, Maurizio Sacconi who opposes Civil Unions for gays
and lesbians, but backs the cohabitation agreement bill.

Giuseppina
la Delfa, who writes for the Italian version of the Huffpost, strongly favors
the two bills, but according to her the “real revolution” is the step-child
adoption right that the Civil Union will grant to same-sex couples.

The two
bills that will be introduced by Monica Cirinnà (Democratic Party) will start
their debate in the Italian Senate Committee of Justice the next September.